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There’s a VICE video floating around about a security officer that is driving for Uber during the government shutdown. He won’t get his paycheck due to the furlough and has “resorted” to driving people around. In his own words, he’s embarrassed and “sunk down” because...

As cliché as it has become, we’re still proclaiming it: “New Year, New Me!” Amongst the long list of resolutions, taking career control and getting a new job rank high on the list as people set forth to improve their circumstances in the New Year....

Oh my lordy be! What in the world have we done to our working world? This is Kim Kelley, the CEO and co-founder of Pepelwerk. And what is our purpose? Our purpose is to change the way we approach our working world. Yes, we are...

The highest rated job search terms are jobs near me, jobs with the highest hourly wage, work remote jobs, entry-level jobs, and jobs in [insert industry]. The process then goes something like this: click on a job board ad that paid the most to get on the...

Employers last year spend a lot of money on responding to the buzz of work culture. Employee culture, engagement, systems that promise to tell you when someone is going to quit because of their happiness score, work environment, and cool digs to make their working environment look on trend. Goodness,...

In most places around the world, we have a social expectation, a process, and structure to education. Government and formal universities have defined how we learn when we learn and the right to say that we have learned for many moons. On the surface, we think school=education=learning. Socially we put prestige...

Hiring a dream candidate or finding a dream job has been like looking for a needle in a haystack. Neither side of the party can even really define what the dream is in the current hiring system. The way we currently go about hiring is overly...

Hey, everyone, it is Kim Kelley, your CEO and co-founder of Pepelwerk, the matchmakers of the working world, and today we are talking about wages. Wages are the biggest component of our working world. They give us the cheddar, the money, the dough, to do...

Have you ever heard anyone say, "I think I'd like the lowest paid job." Well, neither has any of the search engines. There aren’t many people trying to earn less in the world and that is why one of the most frequently searched sets of...

Determining how much you can pay and what you pay is the most important decision you can make as an employer. Your approach to pay, the systems you use, your pay policy or lack thereof can create a world of headaches for you or make...

Happy Thanksgiving week to all of our pepelwerk listeners. This is Kim Kelley, the CEO and Co-founder of pepelwerk, and this week, we are all about trying to recognize things to be grateful for. Of course, that's the theme of the week in the United...

At least once a month there is a news story about some company and how they pay their employees. The bigger you are, the more eyeballs are watching you, and the more outside perspectives and half-stories get published about you. Those stories question ethics, fairness...